Good morning! Happy Sunday. Next Sunday is Independence Day 🇺🇸. It looks like Independence Day Weekend is trending upwards, although Saturday might still be rainy. I am thinking Piseco-Powley Road but I could change my mind. But first, it’s going to be hot.

This morning is partly cloudy and 78 degrees, here in Delmar. ⛅ And rising quickly. There is a south-southeast breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 71 degrees. The muggy weather ends Wednesday around 7 pm. 😓 Already pretty hot and sticky, it was pretty though sleeping last night, and I only expect it to get warmer as the day progresses.

It’s been a long while since we’ve had such oppressive humidity, 😅 I would say it’s been a few years since we’ve had such a warm spell. Lots of heat in recent years, but relatively few days with dew points in the 70s in Albany area.

Yesterday was a nice day up at Thacher Park, Thompson’s Lake and Five Rivers, 😅 but I tell you by the end of day it was real humid. Although I guess there isn’t much you can do about. I am glad I brought my portable battery backup, as I could use my phone all day for whatever. Worked out well.

Today will be mostly sunny and hot 🌞, with a high of 91 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 71 at 9am. Heat index values as high as 95. South wind 8 to 13 mph. A year ago, we had light rain in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 72 degrees. The record high of 97 was set in 1941.

This afternoon I am going to head out to my parents house. 🎣 I thought about going to out to Partridge Run to fish but with the heat there isn’t going to be a lot of fish biting I don’t think. I might go to Lawson’s Lake. My parents said I could spend the night in my truck, which hopefully with the fan will be cooler then at home.

Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:59 pm with sun having an altitude of 70.7° from the due south horizon (-0.1° vs. 6/21). The golden hour 🏅 starts at 7:55 pm with the sun in the west-northwest (296°). 📸 The sunset is in the west-northwest (304°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 8:38 pm after setting for 3 minutes and 27 seconds with dusk around 9:12 pm, which is earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 9:58 pm. At sunset, look for partly cloudy skies 🌃 and temperatures around 85 degrees. The dew point will be 68 degrees. There will be a south breeze at 9 mph. Today will have 15 hours and 17 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 24 seconds over yesterday.

Tonight will be partly cloudy 🌤, with a low of 72 degrees at 5am. 11 degrees above normal. Maximum dew point of 70 at 1am. South wind 6 to 9 mph. In 2020, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became haze by the early hours of the morning. It was sticky. It got down to 66 degrees. The record low of 43 occurred back in 1970. That ain’t going to be good for sleep, but then again, neither was last night.

On this day in 1985, U.S. Route 66 is officially removed from the United States Highway System. You could no longer get you’re kicks on Route 66 because everybody was taking I-40 and I-44 through the heartland of America. 🛣 Times changed, although I bet 35 years later, they had wished they had kept the old designation on various state and county highways for tourist purposes — indeed some states have started signing Historic Route 66, through tourist traps and old routings of the US Highway.

As previously noted, next Sunday is Independence Day 🇺🇸 when the sun will be setting at 8:36 pm with dusk at 9:11 pm. Already will have lost an minute in the evening. On that day in 2020, we had hot, humid, partly sunny, patches of fog and temperatures between 89 and 65 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 83 degrees. We hit a record high of 104 back in 1911.